These photos were taken March 24, 2008 Temperature 38 degrees Celsius: a Khamsin, easterly wind, חמסין ,خمسين.
The Biblical term for a khamsin is ruah qadīm (רוח קדים‎)

July 30,1947, two sergeants were found hanged in a wood near Netanya.
Colonel Archer Cassett, one of the senior British Mandatory officials, said in 1949 that
"the hanging of the sergeants did more than anything else to get us out of Palestine"

The grove contains eucalyptus, oaks and pine trees, planted by the National Jewish Fund.